Of course the new Tindie Fundraisers may soon be just another Kickstarter clone for “exciting,” “new,” and “innovative” Arduino dev boards, something we’ve lamented before. We’re really interested in seeing Tindie used as a platform for group buys; a solution to a maker’s special hell where buying one component costs $100, but ten cost $200.

In addition to the new Fundraisers, [emile] also closed on $500k of seed funding for Tindie. It’s wonderful news for something that is sorely needed by the maker community. Tindie is also hiring, so if you’re a Django/Python wizard go drop everyone’s second favorite robotic dog a line.

5 thoughts on “Tindie gets Fundraisers for kickstarting and group buys”

The thing that worries me with group buys is getting ripped off by the person organizing it, perhaps they could do something that had a secure account for everyone to pool their money into but really i just can’t justify it without having the guy close enough to kick his ass. A rating system and the number of successful group buys (kinda like ebay ratings) would be a plus .. probably wouldn’t stop it but would be a step in the right direction,